Jeremiah 32:22
in Jeremiah 32You gave them this land that You had sworn to give their fathers, a land flowing with milk and honey.
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ASV
and gavest them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
KJV
And hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey;
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This verse in Jeremiah 32
Commentary
6 notes on this verseAnd hast given them this land, which thou didst swear to their fathers to give them,.... Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob; so that God was faithful to his word, kept his covenant and oath; and the faithfulness of God is observed and acknowledged by the prophet, along with other perfections of God before taken notice of.
This site's exposition
After I had given the deed
on Jeremiah 32:16-25
Jeremiah's prayer opens with creation, then moves through the exodus and Israel's disobedience. That history ends in the present siege, where “the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans.” Verse 25 sets the LORD's command, “Buy for yourself the field with silver,” beside that fact.
This site's exposition
a land flowing with milk and honey
Gill names the fathers as Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and reads the verse as Jeremiah's acknowledgment that God kept his oath. Jerome adds that Israel received the land for the fathers' sake. The next verse sets that kept promise against a broken obedience.
The record, by era
The Church Fathers1 voice
(Verse 22) And you gave them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give them, a land flowing with milk and honey. And you have given them this land, which you swore to their fathers to give to them: namely, Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Therefore, not by their own merit, but by the virtues of their fathers, they received the land flowing with milk and honey. For they were not yet able to consume solid food, but were nourished with milk and honey in their infancy. Indeed, with the abundance and plenty of all things, milk and honey.
The Puritans and the Awakening2 voices
He bewails the rebellions they had been guilty of against God, and the judgments God had brought upon them for these rebellions. It is a sad account he here gives of the ungrateful conduct of that people towards God. He had done every thing that he had promised to do (they had acknowledged it, 1 Kings viii.
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We have a message which God thereupon entrusted him to deliver to the people. He must foretel the utter destruction of Judah and Jerusalem for their sins,
The words behind it
14 Hebrew wordsEvery Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| וַתִּתֵּ֤ן | vatiten | and you gave | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| לָהֶם֙ | lahem | to <the> them | ||
| אֶת־ | ʾet- | <obj.> | H853 → | 10935 times |
| הָאָ֣רֶץ | haaretz | the land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| הַזֹּ֔את | hazot | <the> this | H2063 → | 603 times |
| אֲשֶׁר־ | ʾasher- | which | H834 → | 5497 times |
| נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתָּ | nishba'ta | you had sworn | H7650 → | 186 times |
| לַאֲבוֹתָ֖ם | laavotam | to ancestors their | H1 → | 1212 times |
| לָתֵ֣ת | latet | to give | H5414 → | 2011 times |
| לָהֶ֑ם | lahem | to <the> them | ||
| אֶ֛רֶץ | ʾeretz | a land | H776 → | 2504 times |
| זָבַ֥ת | zavat | flowing of | H2100 → | 42 times |
| חָלָ֖ב | chalav | milk | H2461 → | |
| וּדְבָֽשׁ׃ | udevash | and honey | H1706 → | 54 times |
וַתִּתֵּ֤ןand you gave
vatitenH5414 →2011 times
לָהֶם֙to <the> them
lahem
אֶת־<obj.>
ʾet-H853 →10935 times
הָאָ֣רֶץthe land
haaretzH776 →2504 times
הַזֹּ֔את<the> this
hazotH2063 →603 times
אֲשֶׁר־which
ʾasher-H834 →5497 times
נִשְׁבַּ֥עְתָּyou had sworn
nishba'taH7650 →186 times
לַאֲבוֹתָ֖םto ancestors their
laavotamH1 →1212 times
לָתֵ֣תto give
latetH5414 →2011 times
לָהֶ֑םto <the> them
lahem
אֶ֛רֶץa land
ʾeretzH776 →2504 times
זָבַ֥תflowing of
zavatH2100 →42 times
חָלָ֖בmilk
chalavH2461 →
וּדְבָֽשׁ׃and honey
udevashH1706 →54 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.
Through
Exodus 3:8I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
it leads to
- Genesis 50:24
Then Joseph said to his brothers, “I am about to die, but God will surely visit you and bring you up from this land to the land He promised on oath to Abraham, Isaac,…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Exodus 13:5
And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…
Reached by 2 separate paths from here.
- Genesis 15:18–21
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- Exodus 3:17
And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’
- Deuteronomy 1:25
They took some of the fruit of the land in their hands, carried it down to us, and brought us word: “It is a good land that the LORD our God is giving us.”
- Genesis 50:24
Through
Deuteronomy 1:8See, I have placed the land before you. Enter and possess the land that the LORD swore He would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and to their descendants after them.”
it leads to
- Genesis 15:18
On that day the LORD made a covenant with Abram, saying, “To your descendants I have given this land—from the river of Egypt to the great River Euphrates—
- Genesis 12:7
Then the LORD appeared to Abram and said, “I will give this land to your offspring.” So Abram built an altar there to the LORD, who had appeared to him.
- Genesis 15:18
Through
Exodus 13:5And when the LORD brings you into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Hivites, and Jebusites—the land He swore to your fathers that He would give you, a land flowing with milk and…
it leads to
- Exodus 3:8
I have come down to rescue them from the hand of the Egyptians and to bring them up out of that land to a good and spacious land, a land flowing with milk and…
- Exodus 3:8
Where this verse is studied
About Jeremiah
This page draws on Jerome, Commentary on Jeremiah; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763); John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.